Gunung Guntur, west Java
Date
1853
Creator - Organisation
Winckelmann und Söhne, Lithographer
After
Friedrich Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809 - 1864, German-Dutch) , Botanist
Object type
Library reference
49072
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 415mm
width (page): 540mm
height (print): 245mm
width (print): 360mm
width (page): 540mm
height (print): 245mm
width (print): 360mm
Subject
Biology
> Botany
Earth Sciences
> Geology
Biology
> Natural history
Politics & Government
> Political doctrines
> Colonialism
> Botany
Earth Sciences
> Geology
Biology
> Natural history
Politics & Government
> Political doctrines
> Colonialism
Content object
Description
Landscape view of Kawah Kamojang, the crater of Gunung Gunter, a stratavolcano, west Java, Indonesia, showing natural gas rising from within. 9 figures are depicted around the crater’s edge, some engaged in prayer, and a local guide appears to be showing the site to the figure with back turned in the left-hand foreground, who is accompanied by three dogs.
Inscribed below: ‘F. Junghuhn, del./ Gunung-Guntur. [Mount Guntur.]/ Lith. Anst. v. Winckelmann & Söhne in Berlin.’
Plate 7 from Franz Junghuhn’s ‘Landschaften-Atlas zu Java: seine Gestalt, Pflanzendecke und innere Bauart (Leipzig: Arnoldische Buchhandlung, 1853), an atlas of eleven lithographs depicting Javanese landscapes.
Friedrich Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809-1864), German-Dutch botanist and geologist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. Junghuhn worked as a medical doctor for the Dutch colonial forces in Jakarta, before settling in Java, Indonesia, in 1837, where he studied and published extensively on the land.
Inscribed below: ‘F. Junghuhn, del./ Gunung-Guntur. [Mount Guntur.]/ Lith. Anst. v. Winckelmann & Söhne in Berlin.’
Plate 7 from Franz Junghuhn’s ‘Landschaften-Atlas zu Java: seine Gestalt, Pflanzendecke und innere Bauart (Leipzig: Arnoldische Buchhandlung, 1853), an atlas of eleven lithographs depicting Javanese landscapes.
Friedrich Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn (1809-1864), German-Dutch botanist and geologist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. Junghuhn worked as a medical doctor for the Dutch colonial forces in Jakarta, before settling in Java, Indonesia, in 1837, where he studied and published extensively on the land.
Object history
Junghuhn’s Landschaften-Atlas zu Java was published to accompany his four volume Java: seine Gestalt, Pflanzendecke und Innere Bauart (Java: its shape, vegetation cover and inner construction). These plates are from a German edition, translated from the Dutch original.
Associated place